Belfast journalists subjected to unlawful spying cannot claim costs over PSNI failures

Summary

<p>Two Belfast journalists placed under unlawful police surveillance expressed “deep disappointment” after the Court of Appeal found that police cannot be sanctioned for “late and inadequate disclosures” of evidence that led to two court hearings having to be abandoned.</p> <p>Investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney brought a case to the Court of Appeal in October, seeking to recover wasted costs after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) repeatedly withheld and delayed the disclosure of important evidence, in some cases until the night before a court hearing.</p>…

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